The Sun. — London, England, 1810-12-13 00:00:00

1 1 AND 3UTH OF NOVEMBER. BY A LOW R of TRUTH. Since the 14th of September, thr Official Journal of Butonaparte had not indulged in any of thosei rulent attacks, diElated by hatred, vexation, and shune, Its silence was attributed to harpy chang"e produced byi be terrible truths contained in THE SUN of the 3d of Odlober. Vain hopes! The natural disposition sedum admits of change rant,, certain age accuitipli ; Le vast: est imbibe, Petufli: a pris sun pli. Yost-say, then, General Buonaparte, that it is wi,lied to deliver the English from your thefe is only one way, and that is, by being just, and exchanging the French for the English, the Spa niards, the Portuguese, &c." Why, this was. the very thing that was asked of you by the Flan of convention, presented to the British 'Commissary to your.agent M. Demoustier. The rejecliou of pro pwlitions so equitable and so advantageous to both na loos belongs to you. We know ) our motives ; they mark ail the blatluess of your inmost thoughts. Why did you not mention them in your elequeet and impartial notes in the Moniteur ? So enucb Modesty might even give occasion for surprise to your numerous admirers; and disincline them to wards you! You wished to, dupe the English Mi nisters, since you could not corrupt them, like the Cobentzels, the De Gallos, the Hauzwitzes, the Romanzows, and so many otherS, who, dazzled by the glitter of your diamonds, have had the base ness to lose sight of the honour of their masters' thrones, and the infamy to lend themselves to the execution of your plans of conquest and . destruc tion. The Sovereigns only followed the advice of their Ministers, in the consoling Lope of diminishing the calamities of their faithful subjects. Their inten tions were honourable, as the blood which flows in their veins is pure. - They were obliged to yield to the political tempest which the Frenlh Revolution enabled you •to organize. England alone smiles at your impotent rage. She does more : she fights you with glory on the Continent.' You have given laws to eighty millions of Italians, Germans, Prus sians, Poles, and RussianS and an English army opposes a respedtable barrier to the torrent of your devastation, which it cannot penetrate. Your vete ran bands appear to fly at the sight of those English colUirms., 'your contempt of. which has only served to heighten their glory. You choose to avenge upon the priskiners the affronts which your armies have received in Sicily and in Portugal. As / we have long known . you, we will proceed to make up fur your s;lenic, and 40 umask your perfidy. [To be continued] TO CORRESPONDENTS. 4,- 04Ve . hipoe-rnany apalogies-to make to our Correspondents for an apparent negletEt of their respective favours. We can only Mt:ad - W.:at of ro , ;in; i,ocasioned by the pressure of temporary matter. it is still our intention to insert such of their Communications as are not quite out of date. The Letter from A FRIZNO TO NIS COUNTRY, at Deal, is received, but we think we shall better fulfil the laudable purpose of the Writer to submit it to the attention of Go. verninent; than to insert it in our Paper. MAILS. D L I LiSboll, z Dublin, 3 Waterford. PRICE OE STOCKS THIS DAY Ar TwitLve O'CLOCK. 67i I Red. Aim. - . . 66 Consols - - rEiE 8 UN. SOLIIII QUIS DICAKS FALSUM AUDZAT ? L 0 ND 0 IV. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1810. " Windsor Castle, Dec. 13, ato. "His MAJESTY has had but little sleep, arid is much the same as he was yesterday." Signed as usual. iiEFL),( 7/OAS. ON THE Norn4 IN THE M. , IIITF,UIi OF THE 161'11, One loves to believe that which presents an' agree able pros'peet. Constancy is the surest means to succeed in one's plans. So many extraordinary things have been Witnessed during during the last 20 years, that we may look forward to every thing, per haps a change fOr the better in Buonaparte. In or der to attain that - object, we ought to persevere in giving him- the. necessary •correctton—wise advice, and useful Counsels. It is, above all, necessary to avoid confirming his • errors, by combating him with the powerful arms •of frankness and impar tiality. • . , . No reply had been made to his Notes on the Ex change of 'Prisoners ; tbe coarseness adopted by Buonaparte an that occasion had only inspired the most profound contempt. One would suppoSe, that while hunting in t h e f or e s t o f . Fontainebleau, be bad been stung by one of the vipers which abound - there, and of which the species is represented by Naturalists as living only by poison. The Note of the 23d November, on the affairs of Portugal, appeared morirmoderate. There was no more talk.ot tiriLArg the English into the sea. It 427. - t. it" upon the respeEtable position occupied by Lent Wrliingtot.', and the precautions taken to se cure the rear of the French army, by the fortifica tion of Sai;tarem, and by the construetion of two taes•de-port on the banks of the Zezere. As 'o the Notes in the Moniteur of the 2gth and 30th of •November, they contain a.,btilliant eulogy .on the skill of Lord Wellingion, the bravely of his army, and.the devotedness of the Portuguese. They attempt to palliate the faults of Massena, the mis takes of :'his Grnera's, and the disorlers of the troops. Buonaparte has . either lost his writi.r, or is n become ousual!y - neglie nt. NY edo not observe, in these ids i:T;.dulztions, the energy, the finesse, and the fores ,, , , ,ht displayed in former cries. In short, we find, more or less, in them, pretensions the most extrAvagant, accusations the most fiali:Ll - lcus, lies the. most impudent, and calumnies the most absurd. . . Letters fruits Ilit) Itiie.iio state, I lAt General LIN MRS and four of Ms .- associates, who had been taken prisoners by the new Government of Burnes Ayres, hate teen trjediOr a conspitacy against the Independence of the Country, and for an eventual submission to JOSEPH BITON A . PARTE. Oil proofs of t their guilt being p ro d u c - , they weie convict e d, an d were executed on the 2 . 16 of August last, at a pl ace nearly half way betweef Buenos Ayres and Cor dova. 2 ..,' • We have received Dutch and Paris Papers, the former to the 6th aria the killer to the 2d inst. ; but they bring no 4, : vs. Some private letters from Holland, however,'represent the distress of that un happy country. ; as great, almost beyond endi)rance. It. is stated in a Morning Paper, that an Ameri can vessel has arrived at Portsmouth' from the 'la ps, which sailed three days after the Jaspr. W ark inclined to think that this must be a mistake, as our Portsmouth letter does not mention the arrival of any such vessel. His Majesty's ship Manilla has'arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon, but she sailed before the Jasper" Both Houses of Parliament will meet this day pursuant to their last adjournment. Tl'e mode of proceeding which will be proposed will depend en tirely upon the result of the visit of the LORD CHANCELLOR and Mr. PERCEVAL to Windsor this day, and as they bad not returned wben this Paler was put to press, no authentic information upon the subjel could be obtained. Our contemporaries . ntAy indulge in speculations, but the fatt is precisely as we have stated it. • The want of inteligence from Portugal, has de prived the Chroiziae, for somo days, of its favourite amusement, viz. that of censuring the conduct of Lord WELLINGTON, because he Las periumed al l that he undertook, and more than most people ,tliought it was possible for him to do. But, in the absence of news, the Paper alluded to has thought, proper again to have recourse to predictions. When AIAssENA iuvaded Portugal, both he and his master threatenedthat the English should be driven out of that kingdom. The Chronicle gave full credit to their as- , . sertions, and immediately propheSied that Lord WEL LINGTON would be driven from every. post, and cum pelled at last to embark and leave the enemy in quiet possession of the country; a ndit was at the same time uncommonly 'facetious upon some of the papers that ventured to state that Lord WELLINGTON meant to retreat upon a post where he could make a stand against the French Army. MASSENA'S retreat, however, after remaining a month in front of the osition of the Allies at Torres Vedras, without dar ing to attack them, having falsified the prediction of the Chronic*, and - spoilt all its jokes about strong positions, it became necessary to take a new ground, and accordingly Lord WELLINGTON, whose business it was to act on the defensive, is blamed because he did not become the as sailant ; in a word, because he has not captured that Army, which ~we were told four months ago he could not face. We are also told, that for two months all operations in Portugal will cease, but that in February, MASSENA will_ be so re-inforced as to make " the protection of Lisbon, much less the deliverance of the Peninsula, hopeless." We have. very little doubt, that this patriotic predi6lion will prove just as well founded as the one made by the same Paper on the 11th of August last, which we quoted a few days ago; and that in the month of February, the Chronicle will again be under the ne cessity of postponing the complete triumph of the French in the Peninsula for a few months. The Hope, GEo. GREIG, Master, of Perth, from New Brunswick to Plymouth, put into she. Scilly the 28th October ; on the Will she was plundered by a [french brig privateer, of rigging, sails, stores, Sze. and the following day was boarded by the Charles privateer, of Bayonne, the Commander of which Uttered to supply Hope with any thing she was in want off. As soon us the Chuiles was known to have been captured by the 'Amelia frigate, the Committee at LLOYD'S sent to Mr. G s kLIG for an affidavit ,of the treatment he received fro al the Corn: mander of the Charles, and on receipt thereof, a few days since, transmitted it to the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, and they have had the pleasure of being informed, that in consideration :of the circumstance, their Lordships have been pleas ed to give an order for the release of the Commander of the Charles on his parole. We hope that such a mark of liberality in that department of the Government, will have the effeCt of good treatment on the part of the French priva teers to British vessels which may fall into their power, as- they will thus be assured that such praise worthy conduct will meet its' reward in this coun try, should the fortune 'of war, make them our prisoners. NAVAL .14EWS. Pev.'"JrnY.ru, Dtc..ll.—We stated yesterday that the ship Nuitia:,. arrived here from Quebec, fell in wial the Wreck. of the bask Aurora, of London, Captain FLECK, in the Western Ocean ; the,follow lug are the 'particulars :—The Aurcru, on her pas sage from Quebec with a cargo of timber, bound to Sheerness and Chatham, encountered a very heavy gale of wind on the 22d of November, in lat. 51.13. N. lung. 32_. 30 W. in which all her boats t; .ere stove, nearly all their provisions, and every article on deck washed overboard, and her bowsprit sprung' when the hardships of her unfortunate crew com menced, the only article of peovisie:. left being a little bread, sufficient only to supply their wants for the short space of twenty-four hours, then at the long distance of 1000 miles from the Land's End : but, alas! on the 26th following, after enduring all the hardships imaginable, for four days, for three of which they had been without food, and reduced to a most deplorable state, being almost deprived of raiment, and their limbs frost bitten, a more terrible gale of wind than that experienced on the 2,2 d, came on, in which' the vessel fed over on . her broadside, which accident released, from the horrors of an expeacd but untimely end, the Ist and 211 Mates, two seamen, and two boys, who were washed over-hoard and perished ; the re m.rinder of the crew, consi,ti'ng of the Captain and three stamen, were obliged,' for the preservation of lite, to cling to the side of the wreck, in which situation trey rermineti eight hours, during this period the main and mize.n.masts, foretop-mast and back-stay went by the board, :soon after which she again. r i g ht e d, b u t was full of water; however this afforded another retreat for the unfortunates, being then enabled to get into the fore-top, where after some hours, they secured themselves from the violence of the sea ; th e decks of the vessel then blew up, and strange to tell, these men endured. all the horors of starvation for the further space of seven days,. when on the 2d inst. in lat 47. 50. N. long. 23. 00. the Muida hove in sight and bore down on the vessel, not perceiving at first that any of the crew remained on board, but t on nearing her, some men were discovered in the fore-top, and in conse quence a boat was immediately hoisted out to bring them off, who had for eleven days- been kept alive by sucking the ropes, which afforded them the water gathered there during the heavy rains. One of them appeared in a dead state, - and the others were senseless and in a most horrible condition ; no intel ligence as to their hardships could be obtained from them until within three or four days previous to the'Maida's arrival here, when they gave an ac• count almost incredible to believe, but -which was actually the case. Two •English merchant brigs hove in sight at the 'time the crew were in the midst of their sufferings, to one of which Captain FLECK held out a red handkerchief, which remained flying some hours, but this only tended to increase their misery, as no notice was taken of their signal of wretchedness, and both vessels pro ceeded on their course. During the gale, in which part of the crew were washed overboard, one of the little boys, of respectable connexions, clung to the Captain ; the latter could have saved him, had he been enabled to gain a rope, but that was impossible, and they were both separated by a most . awful sea. The Captain and his- seamen are ex tremely iil, and no hopes are entertained for the recovery of one of the latter ; it is expected that each of them will be obliged to have . a limb ampu tated, in consequence of their sufferings by a most severe frost, that came on during the time they re mained on the wreck. - Arrived this morning the Duke of Moritrose packet, Capt. BLUETT, from the Brazils, with Mails and Dispatches, the latter from Lord STRANGFORD ; she also brought an Officer, charged with dis patches lot the Portuguese Minister at Cadiz ; and left the following ports, viz. Rio Janeiro on the 16th Otiober, Bahia on the 26th, and St. Salvador on the 29th following. PrAlous to the Duke of Mon,trose leaving Rio Janeiro, his Majesty's schooner Misletoe, of B,,giins, Lieutenant RonclT RAMSAY, arrived there with dispatches from Buenos Ayres, the substance of which Was reported to have been a disturbance at the latter place, and in consequence his Majesty's ships Foudroyant, of 80 guns, Rear Admiral the Hon. M. Da COURCY, Captain R. T . HANCOCK ; and the Porcupine, of 28 guns, Captain ROBERT ELLIOT, then at Rio de Janeiro, sailed for the River Plate immediately ; his Majesty's ship Crocodile was left cruizing off the latter place; the Duke of Montrose, on her passage, spoke the ship Royal Sovereign, of Greenock, from London, bound to the Brazils, about the latter end of Oaober, nearly on the Brazil; coast, all well ; also . spoke about a month s ince, cruizing, his Majffsty's ship EoLs, of 32 g - tir..s, and shortly after spoke 05 American ship from Cadiz, in ballast, bound to America, all well. The Mike of Montrose fell in with his Majesty's ship Scylla, of 18 guns, C:tpt• ATCIUSON, last Saturday, cruizing to the weiewari of Scilly, by which ship she was ordeted on to this port. Two packets, One of them said - E6" be the Princess Amelia, Capt. Moortsom, trOrn'Falrnitith , touched at Bahia about the 20th October, but ire ceeded on immediately.: The !frlairla, arrived' here f;otn'Qnebc•c, Came a running - ship, and sailed 00 the sth November ; left loading,' here the following ships for England, viz. lio,yutist, Larlk Jane, Ranger , and Minerva. The frost had set in very severe , it seas feared that no morexessels could leave that pit this season. Arrived,the Constant gun-brig, of 14 guns, fron) Basque loads, and the orig Friendship, of N o rth Shields, D. M`CIAAN, Maser, from Quebec, Witb a cargo of timber. Sailed the Piercer gun-brig for Basque Roads. Went into barn Our his Majesty's ship dimsterdan g of 32 guns. S,liied the 111orrislown hired armed brig, with 3 convoy fur Wales. By the _Duke of Montrose packet, .inte;ligCnce 11 .received that General LINIERS haviog been detetl in corresponding with the French, had been arrest' ed, tried, and shot in Septetub,.r FALMOUTH, DEC. 10.-Ai rived his Majesty's ship Manilla from ,Lisbon, in i 9 days ; she &ailed w i it :he Dolphin and 22 sail of transports, with Frorc- 6 prisoners, deserters, &c. parted . with the Dolphin and 12 sail sometime ago, and with the other' to sad il l gale. of wind off this port yes zerday. L'Ai&le and convoy remains. • PORTSMOUTH, DEC. t 2.-Arrived - his MajestP ship Belette from the Leeward- Islands. It 1 13 blown a gale all day, yet part of the convoy the DOA ns, under the lir, pid, Goshuaik and 1 na/do; have -got into harlicut'; also the Huml . .C l. armed ship., Part of the West-India fleet have returned: it a 5 feared considerable damage is done amongst One ship, the estet, GLENDALE, was ran foul Q i by another ; the Nestet has returned. . . . The John, of Newcastle:, Capt. BEI',TIE,:3S tr ll 4 ll about eleven o'clock on Monday night.otf the Cary, and re-taken by the Linnet sloop of war at ic e o'clock the next morning. It is said the John four t the Frenchmen an hour and half before he s urivi v dered. DOVER, Drc. 12.—The Rosario sloop of o r has captured and sent in a very fine French lugg er privateer, called le Marnelake, of 16 guns and 63 tnen which she fell in with off Dungeness. T be privateer mistaking theßosario for a merchant ves sel ' attempted to board, in which several Frenchm en were drowned. Another privateer, at a short d' s ' . tance, was preparing to assist her consort, but fir'L li ing the discomfiture she had sustained, had no bc's h for a nearer inspedtion. LYMINGTON, DEC. 12.—Put into our Roads (114 tile West India and Li s b on fl eet , un d er convoy 0 4. • Naiad and Galatea frigates. DEAL, Drc. 12.--Sailed the Theban frigate or a cruize off Beachy [ - lead. but b e FIVE O'CLOCK.—It s.ill blows a gale, shipping appear to ride out all very well. Letters have been-received by a ship from CP4tet°' to the•sth, from that port, and from Paris to „ tb „, 6 2d instant. The French Papers are not liter t"' f ' - e the 30th ult. and contain no news. The Pr it ,',l, advices confirm the failures in the French cain t ' ai and inform us that' the colonial produce taken fro Americans, and deposited in Antwerp, Fraelu n n ',; and Cologae, to a large amount, was to be sol ci the 3d of this month. A Gentleman who ~ was Pas senger, adds, that no n ew s had. arr i ve d either., 11.- Spain or Portugal. 5' We have received th e f o ll ow i ng l et t er , dated le terday, from H-trwich " the. Master °t e d neutral vessel arrived from Holl a nd, we are infer n 'o that a requisition 16s bee n ma d e i n t h at country _ it 7000 met), to man the Freud' Elect in the Sch elu that •a ship .of the line and two frigates sailed the Helvoetsluys „some time ago, but the ship 0 ' „d line, from her draught of weter, got on s hore, 3 `", s was . obliged to return to Helvoetsluys. The fr i g 3 , r ;, are supposed to have sailed north about, for the u je6t of their destination. A Letter from Port -au-Prince, dated 12th Sc!" tember,,says— ,, An attack was made about the 131:. of August,' by the army of Christophe,. on the M a o Gen. kreillard,.who succeeded Gen. Lemarre t it ! ) command- of that place,. repulsed the eneri l Y Vi- 5 1 great loss; they left on the field Goo men, alP° rl / 4 " whom were four Genet al Officers." Y irj The body of Mr. SINIEON was found yesterda cot digging the ruins in Lisle-strce!. It was ju a rP bet shocking state, and the where his remains were found. Mrs: StMeOW 5 has not vet been discovered. . ' r An Hibernian being lately found guilty pace was still very dy. demeanor at the quarter sessions; was asked by ac' Court, if he had any person to speak to his do I 4° tcr—" Please your honour," says Pat, • i know any one here, but I can find sorneiwwP you'll let me go out for half an hour.